Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

—Jessica Alba

About Jessica Alba

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Jessica Marie Alba ( AL-bə; born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and businesswoman. She rose to prominence at age 19 for portraying Max Guevara, the lead character in the television series Dark Angel (2000–2002), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Her cinematic breakthrough came shortly after...

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My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything—even if you have no clue what you're doing.

—Jessica Alba

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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

—Jessica Alba

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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

—Samuel Johnson

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

—H. L. Mencken

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

—Daniel J. Boorstin

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11 Jul 2015 Added